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I'm not at all familiar with the machine you mentioned but your post got me to thinking. I've never owned a double-needle machine and sewed 'miles' of trim tape with it and when the job was done, everyone thought I had a double needle machine. Of course, my method takes twice the time but it was 'results' I was after. Chuck

Yeah...RIGHT. Geeze... a guy can dream... can't he? Chuck Wouldn't be a CUB FAN if he didn't! There ya' go! Chuck

Yeah...RIGHT. Geeze... a guy can dream... can't he? Chuck

Go to Singer's 'page'. They list, probably every machine and part they've ever made. They are real fast on delivery times, also. Chuck

I have all Singer machines... 7-33, 31-15 and 211G-165. When I got them, they all needed a good cleaning. I got a large metal tub and set the head in the tub. I poured kerosene over the machine, slowly. Waited a few minutes and carefully poured more kerosene over it. I let it set for a couple hours then, using a parts cleaning brush (like mechanics use for cleaning parts) liberally brushing the machine with kerosene, inside and out. When I felt the machine was clean, I rinsed the it with more kerosene. The whole process took about 2-gallons. I let the machine drip-dry on a board. I wiped-down the outside of the machine and daubed-up excess on the inside with clean rags and began oiling the moving parts without moving them. After feeling the oil had penetrated the moving parts, I slowly turned the wheel by hand while oiling moving parts. This method takes a little time but, the kerosene being a lubricant, will allow the machine oil to reach the moving parts better and avoids un-necessary wear. I don't like using carb cleaners or strong solvents. They tend to dry-out parts and seems to take longer for the machine oil to get into the moving parts. Also, some solvents can destroy the finish on the machine. Good luck! Chuck

They're just getting warmed-up! This is their year! Chuck

Happy (belated) Birthday! I hope, it was the best... EVER!!! Chuck

What goes around... comes around. I grew-up in the 60's and saw the 'advent' of peace signs and bell bottoms. Personally... I never got into that. With me, it was always Wranglers and pear-snap shirts! Chuck

Oh, well. In that case, we should process all confiscated children into food for the rest of us. The devil's in the details, of course; but damn, the idea's infallible. No, you confiscate the adults and feed them to them to the others, The confiscated children are a food delicacy and sold at a premium to pay for the whole operation. [/repl ... it's called 're-cycling'. Chuck

Parents aside, the 3rd-and-later kids are innocent: they didn't ask to be born, and can't fend for themselves. More money staying in the family puts more food in those kids' mouths. ...and more fat kids! Chuck

I can think of three sexually transmitted diseases that can lead to premature death, and one of them is incurable. Anyone with one of those diseases might want a gun and one bullet. Chuck

Wait a minute... Is the person with a venereal disease going to shoot 'em or fuck 'em to death? Chuck

Happy Birthday, Dave! Glad to hear it was a good one! Chuck

I don't think, they were playing 6-man back then. This is over some other 'shit'. Chuck

This might be a reason for a 'calling to arms'! FORT HANCOCK, Texas (AP) — When black SUVs trail school buses around here, no one dismisses it as routine traffic. And when three tough-looking Mexican men pace around the high school gym during a basketball game, no one assumes they're just fans. Fear has settled over this border town of 1,700, about 50 miles southeast of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, epicenter of that country's bloody drug war. Mexican families fleeing the violence have moved here or just sent their children, and authorities and residents say gangsters have followed them across the Rio Grande to apply terrifying, though so far subtle, intimidation. The message: We know where you are. At schools in Fort Hancock and nearby Texas towns, new security measures and counseling for young children of murdered parents have become a troubling part of the day. "I have friends with fathers who've been annihilated," said Israel Morales, a junior at Fort Hancock High School. "They just hug you and start crying. It just traumatizes you." He said school doesn't always feel safe. "I try to be stoic," Morales said. "But it still worries the heck out of me." Mexican drug gangs have not fired a single shot in Fort Hancock, and no one has disappeared. But as drug violence continues unabated in and around Ciudad Juarez, residents of Texas border towns fear it will spread their way. "There's been incidents of school buses followed, and threats to some of the students and threats to some of the staff," Hudspeth County Sheriff's Lt. Robert Wilson said. "It's caused us to really go on high alert." Three mysterious men walked into the Fort Hancock High School gymnasium last month during a basketball game, setting off worries they were drug cartel members sent to deliver a message. Parent Maria Aguilar said "a panic" swept through the gym and only subsided when they left. "They walked in and they were laughing," Aguilar said. "They were probably like, 'We'll just scare everybody.'" Wilson said a suspicious car was noticed following a packed school bus earlier this year. Rumors that the car belonged to cartel members never were validated, but after other suspicious cars were spotted, the department began following buses as a precaution. Chuck

You bet! I don't care who was ever in the cast with him ow which movie he was in, your attention was always on Dennis Hopper. One heck of an actor! Chuck

I just don't know why I always seem to attract a certain type... short stalkerish kind of wierdo's who have fantasies about "being dominated" by a tall woman Stalkers.. cant live with em.... and can't shoot em without a LOT of justification You got that right! Does 'justification' have the same interpretation as 'he needed it', here in Texas? Chuck Nah.. we have to be a lot more specific here in Washington. As so many of the unarmed female victims have found out the hard way, an order of protection is absolutely useless to protect them. It is a good first step though and then visit the local gun shop and firing range. The cops seem to have to wait for the 'blood and or body' before they can do anything. Frequent trips to the range is good advice! Chuck

I just don't know why I always seem to attract a certain type... short stalkerish kind of wierdo's who have fantasies about "being dominated" by a tall woman Stalkers.. cant live with em.... and can't shoot em without a LOT of justification You got that right! Does 'justification' have the same interpretation as 'he needed it', here in Texas? Chuck

I think... he likes you! Chuck

What I'm curious of is, what is this bill going to do about welfare cheats by people and doctors? What will it do about outrageous rates charged by doctors and hospitals? As an example, a colonoscopy in my area is right at $20,000! That's 'seriously', takin' in the shorts! Is there any sanity to this bill? Why, won't they release this bill to the public so we really know what it's all about? Chuck

That was one of my all time favorite episodes of the Twilight Zone. ETA: i had no idea he was in that He was a much slimmer, trimmer Bill Shatner, then. Chuck

Will Shatner had earlier appeared in a few episodes of Third Rock From the Sun, and he was f#@king hysterical. I never watched Third Rock From the Sun. Never watched Star Trek, either. The first time I ever saw Bill Shatner, was on the old 'Twilight Zone'. He played the part of an airplane passenger who saw some kind of creature tearing the wing apart while the plane was in flight. Waaaaaay before your time! Chuck

I'm still very much still in the "educating-myself" phase, too. Quite a morass to wade through. Thanks, anyhow. I haven't been able to find a copy of the bill, anywhere. I understand, it's quite lengthy. Not to mention all the (I'm sure) 'pork barrel' riders on it. You don't suppose, all the congressmen and senators don't want us knowing exactly what is in the bill. You know, keep us like little mushrooms because the American Public isn't 'smart enough' to understand it or they want to slip something by us. Chuck

This whole healthcare bill thing has me puzzled. Perhaps, you or someone else here can clear the murky waters of it all. First of all, everyone is all in an up-roar over this bill. The politicians on both sides are spreading their side of the story and I doubt, there is one single citizen who has been able to read the entire bill. Is this to say, we just accept some politicians 'spin' on it? Seems to me, this whole thing is about which side can get their way and we can just accept it. We're all arguing about it and we don't have a clue as to what is 'really' in it. My head's fixin' to explode! Where is the truth? Chuck

Focus here: http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/ I 'focused'. To me, it's just more rhetoric from the opposition. Then there is the other side and their point of view and blah, blah, blah... The House has their version of the bill and the Senate has the changes they want to make to the bill and so-on and so-on. All that 'we the people' know is what the politicians want us to know about it. Has anyone in the general population actually seen this bill? All we know about the bill are the bits and pieces of information we get from the media. No matter which side wins, we the people are going to take it in the shorts. Why isn't there a nation-wide outcry from the people? Simple... we have no idea what this bill is about... only what the 'slick' politicians tell us. As for McCain, he's the biggest mouth in the scare tactics. Chuck